Personal Computers, Student Computers, Mobile Devices, and Working from Home: Office 365 - Through Office 365, all Duke faculty, staff, and students may install and activate Microsoft Office software on up to five computers and mobile devices simultaneously.

The Mac version does not require activation. The Windows version uses volume license activation, which activates with either a KMS license server (default, recommended) or a product key (MAK - used for offline or off-campus work computers). They only differ in terms of licensing and activation.ĭuke-Owned Computers: volume-licensed standalone version - This version is not tied to users' accounts and may be installed and activated on an unlimited number of computers for Duke purposes. In terms of functionality, all of them are exactly the same.

Troubleshooting specific errors when activating manually with the KMS.

How can I activate the volume-licensed version of Office 2013 manually? (when automatic activation does not work).

How can I activate the volume-licensed version of Office 2016 manually? (when automatic activation does not work).

How can I verify that my copy of Office is activated?.

How do I connect to VPN to activate Office when not on the Duke network?.

How do I activate the volume-licensed versions of Office for Windows?.

How do I download and activate Microsoft Office through Office 365?.

Activate office command line